“The gridiron gets gory in PLAY DEAD, a new novel by Ryan Brown that’s also being brought to the screen by Backseat Conceptions. Fango got some exclusive behind-the-scenes video (see it below) along with details on the project—including one facet that’s already been controversial.

Real meat and guts were incorporated into the makeup FX—which elicited an angry post over at the Vegetarian Star website, which complained, “Completely disgusting and uncalled for, especially considering how easy it is to make fake flesh props for the screen.” Sakmann’s response: “They don’t know how much it costs to make fake parts. If they want to pay for them, by all means I’ll use them, but until then I’ll just go to the Asian market and buy them for $3. I think it looks better anyway. It’s not like I killed anything to make the movie; they were already dead!” In the clip below, Sakmann demonstrates just how to make some tasty guts with easily purchased supermarket items.”

DISCLAIMER

Play Dead is a zombie football novel written by Ryan Brown, available now from Gallery Books. This website and the Play Dead trailer and Behind the scenes videos were created by Backseat Conceptions under the direction of Doug Sakmann as part of a viral marketing campaign to market the Play Dead novel. The film rights to make a feature ‘Play Dead’ movie are still available to option.